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Public workspaceUltra-high field, multi-echo MRI acquisition for resting-state functional connectivity

  • 1UC Santa Barbara;
  • 2University of California, Santa Barbara
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Protocol CitationElizabeth Rizor, Dr. Scott Grafton 2024. Ultra-high field, multi-echo MRI acquisition for resting-state functional connectivity. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.dm6gpbbj1lzp/v1
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Protocol status: Working
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Created: February 02, 2022
Last Modified: June 27, 2024
Protocol Integer ID: 57737
Keywords: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (f..., resting state functional connectivity (r..., Parkinson’s Disease, motor circuits, basal ganglia, ASAPCRN, ultra-high field, multi-echo
Funders Acknowledgements:
Aligning Science Across Parkinson's
Grant ID: ASAP-020-519
Abstract
This is an MRI acquisition sequence used to examine resting-state functional connectivity of open and closed loop motor circuits in healthy controls and those with Parkinson’s Disease. Scans include a Localizer, anatomical T1 MPRAGE, CMRR spin-echo AP and PA echo-planar imaging (EPI) images for field map generation, and a modified CMRR multi-echo EPI sequence for resting-state imaging. All participants complete a 30-minute MRI protocol at the University of Southern California’s Center for Image Acquisition, where they are scanned with a Siemens 7T Terra scanner and a research-only ​​8-channel transmit 32-channel receive Nova 8Tx/32Rx head coil (Nova Medical Inc.)
Materials
Equipment

  • Siemens 7T MAGNETOM Terra
  • Nova Medical 8-channel pTx system and 8Tx/32Rx head coil
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